Improved washing-machine



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HENRY d. MORELA'ND' 0F WHITEHALL ILLINOIS. Y',

\ Leners Baten: N0.1o5, s31, dated .my 26, 1870.

' The Schedule referred to in these Lett To all whom itmcy concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY J. MonELAND, of Whitehall, in the county of Green and State of Illinois,havc invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machines; and' I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a 4part ofthis specification, in whichi Figure 1A is a longitudinal, and Y vFigure 2 is a transverse vertical section.

This invention consists in the combination of wash- .boards f and guide-ways, arranged lengthwise of the `inner side of the sluis-box, with a head provided with four grooved horizontal projections, one at each upper corner, the grooves in which projections lit over said gn1de-ways, enabling the head to slide to and fro upon -the same, when the guide-ways are made shorterthan the box, and `so placed as to leave spaces of equal extent between their ends and those of the box, and

when the 'grooved projections of the sliding head are made so narrow that the two on one side maybe slipped oi the guide-ways into the space,` at one end of the same, and then the two on the other side may be slipped ol into the space at the other end of the guide-ways, andthe sliding head be thus disengaged, so that it may be removed from the box, the same process, reversed, being employed to place the sliding head againon the guide-ways.-

" In the 'drawng- A is the suds-box, p p

a a, boards of a width less than the height of the sides of the box, and attached to the sides lengthwise of the same. l

l1 b, metal strips, secured between the sides of the box'and the boards a, and bent downward over the upper edges o f the latter so as to form guide-ways.

'l5 is `the sliding head, which is made of wooden plates placed parallel, at intervals suicient to allow` mentioned above.

d are metal plates, which aresecured to the ends of ers Patent and making` part of the same.

the bars c, and are bent inward nnder the bars, and then outward, so Aas to form grooves beneath the bars, which grooves'it over the guide-ways b.

e is the handle by whichl the sliding head is moved to and fro upon the guide-ways. i ff are the wash-boards, which are slipped into the spaces between the ends of the boards a and of the box, and which may be readily withdrawn tl1e refrom.

hA h are grooves, made one in the upper side of the head c of one of the wash-boards, and the other in the lower side ot' the headk of the other wash-board,

these grooves being made for the purpose of affording they handle e snficiert length of play.

When the slidinghead B is to be removed, for'any cause, from the suds-box, the `'wash-boards f are first withdrawn. The'sliding head is then endwise until its two corner projections l slip off the guide-ways.

These two. projections are then lifted above the guide-ways, and the sliding head moved in the opposite direction' until its other two corner projections slip ol'the guide-ways. It may-then bc removed from the box. Y

p When the sliding head is to be replaced on`the guide-ways, it is first dropped into one end of the boxat then moved toward the other end, twoV of its grooved plates cl meantime catching on the guide-ways.

At the opposite end of the box the two remaining corner projections l drop so as to bring their grooved bination with the Wash-boards j; and sliding head B, A

provided with the corner projections l and grooved plates d, constructed as and for the purpose specified.

HENRY J. MORELAND.

Witnesses:

` SoLoN G. KEMON,

OHAs. A. PETTrr. 

